Saddle-pack cover.



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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFIQE.

SADDLE-PACK COVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 9, 1907.

Application filed November 8,1906. Serial No. 342.550.

To all whom it 7/1/14 calmer/1 Be it known that I, JOHN A. Evans, a citizen 0f the United States, residing at Yellowstone Park, National Park Reservation, and State of Wyoming, have invented new and useful Improvements in Saddle-Pack Covers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a saddle-pack cover, and has for its object to provide an improved cover and means for securing the pack to the saddle.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the invention applied to a pack. Fig. 3 shows the opposite side of the pack. I Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are side, front, and end views, respectively, showing the pack in position on the animal.

Referring specifically to the drawings, the 1 cover 10 comprises a square sheet of canvas or other suitable flexible material. 011 one side of the sheet are sewed or otherwise se cured substantially parallel straps 11 and 12, respectively, across which extends a strap 13, which is also secured to the sheet. The strap 1.3 extends diagonally across the sheet, and the straps 11 and 12 are arranged at substantially a right angle thereto. To one end of the strap 13 is secured a buckle 14., and the other end is free from the sheet to form a tongue which is engageable with the buckle. At each end of the strap 11 are secured D- rings 15 and 16, respectively, and similar rings 17 and 18 are secured to the ends of the straps 12. To the rings 15 and 17 are attached latigo-straps 19. The opposite ends of the straps 11 and 12 are connected by a cross-strap 20, having at the middle a D-ring 21. To the straps 11 are also secured D- rings 22 and 23, respectively, arranged on opposite sides of the strap 13. The strap 12 also has rings 24 and 25 arranged opposite the rings 22 and 23. To the ring 23 is made fast one end of a rope 26.

At 27 is indicated an aparejo of ordinary construction and which is secured on the animal in the usual manner. Near the top of l the aparejo and on both sides thereof are hooks 28, whereby the pack is secured in a manner to be hereinafter described.

l In use the cover is folded around the packl age to be transported and secured thereto by l passing the straps 11, 12, and 19 around the same crosswise, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the straps 10 being lashed to the rings 16 and 18. The strap 13 is passed around the bundle in the opposite direction and secured by the buckle 14. By means of these straps the cover will be securely fastened on the package and its contents fully protected and not liable to injury from exposure to bad i weather.

I The pack is secured to the aparejo by l placing the rings 22 and 2 1 over the hooks 28 and lashing it by the rope 26, which is passed under the lower corner of the aparejo, then through the ring 21 and under the other eorner, and finally through the ring 25, to which it is lashed, as shown in Fig. 4. By these means the pack will be securely fastened, and I am able to dispense with the lair, sling, and lash ropes, thus greatly simplifying the operation of securing the pack.

I claim- The combination with an aparejo having hooks near the top thereof, of a pack-cover comprising a sheet of flexible material, a pair of straps extending across the same and secured thereto, rings on the straps and engageable with the aforesaid hooks, a cross strap adjacent one of the ends of the aforesaid straps, a ring on the cross-strap, and a rope extending from one of the first-mentioned straps under the lower corners of the aparejo and through the ring on the crossstrap, and made fast to the other strap.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN A. EVANS.

Witnesses ALEX LYALL,

l l l l l l 1 F l l l l W. J. IIENDERSON. 

